Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 2 | All the children blessed themselves from the fount and went straight up to the altar . |
| 3 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 4 | In accepting that the world occupied by a majority of adult women would be different from that of men , feminists distinguished themselves from the mainstream of opinion only by their refusal to accept that women 's role was thereby rendered inferior . |
| 5 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 6 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |
| 7 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 445 ) puts it : ‘ As in 1944–45 , employers and managers in a sense detached themselves from the dangerous appeal to the nation , over the heads of the nine million voters who were also affiliated to the TUC ’ . |
| 8 | Two vaguely serpentine exters detached themselves from the group . |
| 9 | The Scottish Jacobites withdrew themselves from the Scottish Convention which met on 14 March 1689 , and as a result the settlement north of the border was worked out predominantly by Whigs . |
| 10 | As they served themselves from the many little dishes , Maura surveyed her companion . |
| 11 | The rest , 52 per cent , was income councils raised themselves from the property tax or rates . |
| 12 | At that time the DPKR had only 7,000 members and although they dissociated themselves from the Russian Communist Party , many were still members of the CPSU . |
| 13 | The first two of these have , for different reasons , dissociated themselves from the causal-corrective concerns of traditional criminology . |
| 14 | Student demonstrations increased sharply at the end of the decade and although the educated public in general dissociated themselves from the violent means and socialist ends of the revolutionaries , a large section of the press showed scant sympathy for the government . |
| 15 | They totally dissociated themselves from the Rowdies , who they thought of as kids , who , by mouthing off all the time , started trouble which was left to them to finish off . |
| 16 | His own research on female undergraduate students of physics provides further support for this conclusion ; many of them explicitly dissociated themselves from the male physics students and their ambitions . |
| 17 | ( Cohen also refers , for instance , to white youth who supported overtly racist immigration policies but dissociated themselves from the National Front ; see also the research on white youth reported in Coffield et al. , |
| 18 | State-controlled television claimed on Nov. 18 that the opposition protest " had fizzled out as people dissociated themselves from the politics of disruption and violence " , although it acknowledged that stoning and tear-gassing in Lahore had " caused inconvenience " . |
| 19 | They carefully distanced themselves from the dirty work , but did n't hesitate to employ his services . |
| 20 | Regional roots aside , the band always wisely distanced themselves from the now-dead scene — but , as Andy candidly remarks , ‘ everybody said that , did n't they ? |
| 21 | Though almost certainly untrue , the tale succinctly illustrates the prevailing princely ambivalence : they distanced themselves from the servants on whom they relied . |
| 22 | One group distanced themselves from the class and adopted a communist ideology advocating the overthrow of capitalism by the working class . |
| 23 | Although the constitutional law granted cultural minority rights , the Albanian and Hungarian minorities , concentrated in Kosovo and Vojvodina respectively , distanced themselves from the FRY , criticizing the constitution 's omission of collective political rights . |
| 24 | Only the nationalist Irish explicitly exempted themselves from the interplay of national identity and shared sentiments through games . |
| 25 | The people who removed themselves from the register to avoid paying the tax were unlikely to be Conservative voters ( although they were not necessarily pro-Labour either ) . |
| 26 | Benny and Mortimer immediately launched themselves from the bushes , the rest of the Marines following , firing at any worshipper who had a weapon . |
| 27 | The nucleus of workers who helped transform Carno Railway Station into one of the world 's most efficient textile printing plants considered themselves from the beginning as part of an extended family . |